International Women's Day 2018 Slides

From the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements to the Women’s March, resistance in the name of women’s rights has been gaining momentum in the US. We at GGJ, are organizing a social media mini-campaign to push the conversation further, and we are asking you to join us! Our goal is to shed light on grassroots feminism and the reality that our organizing struggles, from housing to climate to anti-militarization, are deeply connected to the fight against patriarchy. In order to get the conversation rolling with your organizations, please feel free to use the slides developed by GGJ (attached below), as a primer on the history of International Women’s Day (IWD) and what we mean by grassroots feminism.

IWD is just one week away, when women of color, working class women, and LGBTQ people around the world will take to the streets. Here is the statement from World March of Women, a global feminist movement that we are members of:

“On the 8th of March 2018, International Women’s Day, we from the World March of Women, diverse women from all peoples, races and ages, come together once again to reaffirm that we will keep marching until we are all free from all the oppression from the patriarchal, capitalist and colonial system; we will continue to use our feminism as a way of life, and the streets as the space to amplify our demands…” Read full statement here.

Today is the first day of Women’s History Month, and tomorrow, March 2nd, is the second anniversary of the assassination of our compañera Berta Caceres. We stand in solidarity to reject the violent deaths of land defenders and demand justice in her case. The Honduran movement calls her the seed of freedom. As we grow those seeds, let’s continue in our mobilizations for justice.